MLO-Based Dharma Practice Check-In

Optimizing Quality of Life.

Making Wisdom & Compassion Practices Accessible to Solve Personal, Relational, Social, Digital, and Climate Issues.

(Live Online Course)

For those who have an interest in Buddhist teachings, would like to have a community to practice with and receive guidance on how to make those teachings practical in various aspects of life.

Seven Wednesdays and Thursdays
October 28 to Dec17
Wednesdays from 11:30 to 12:30 PM, (PDT)
Thursdays from 7- 8 PM, (PDT)

“ When we are trained in wisdom, compassion, and peacefulness, we all do better.”
Dr. Manijeh Motaghy

Overview

The MLO-Based Dharma Practice is comprised of seven one-hour dharma check-in sessions. The instructor will introduce a topic for practice and cultivation. Topics may also be pick by participant curiosity and choice. Topics include:

  • Meditation in various postures and topics
  • Understanding the obstacles to meditation and how to remove them
  • Buddhist teachings including the Four Noble Truths, Karma, and various other core teachings
  • The applications of each of these teachings in person life, including relationships, work, and aging
  • Science of the brain and how our wiring is both an advantage and disadvantage to spiritual progress
  • The matters of the heart, including compassion, self-love, equanimity, and forgiveness
  • Prior knowledge of meditation or Buddhist teaching not required.

Ways MLO-Based Dharma Practice
Can Resolve Personal & Global Issues.

Are you lost in social media, going from one ap to another, compelled to opt-in, subscribe, pay monthly dues, create numerous profiles, worry about online presence and feeling overwhelmed? Or not engage at all and feel you’ll soon become obsolete?

This course will explore digital nudging and how different components of “self” or ego are used to create craving, attachment, and autopilot. It will guide you to cultivate an inner knowing so can you chose wisely, just right.

Do you meditate, go on retreats, act compassionately, but feel the world is on the wrong path and there is nothing you can do to change it?

  • We carefully explore core Buddhist teachings as they apply to various systems, sciences, and human behavior to develop a deeper understanding of social action towards inner peace.

Do you feel stuck at the mercy of those who make bad or selfish decisions on behalf of the society?

  • We will dig deeper into the making of belief systems, identities, biases, actions & impact, and how we may use preventative accountability to create more consciousness in the world.

  • We will develop deeper connection to the inner workings of interdependence through simple activities, mediation, reflection, and the engaging with the environment with more presence.

Instructor’s Bio

Dr. Manijeh Motaghy has over two decades of Buddhist and meditation practice including 18 (ten-day) silent retreat practice. She has designed and implemented 129 day-long retreats and taught countless Budhist-based courses, workshops and confrences.

Manijeh is an Organizational Psychologist and UCLA Authorized Mindfulness teacher. She is certified by NYU InnerMBA in creating Conscious Teams and Leaders. She has trained teams and executives at fortune 500 companies such as Disney, Health Net, and Kaiser. She has designed and implemented hundreds of courses and retreats, taught thousands of people, published hundreds of blogs, and spoken at numerous conferences and summits and universities.

Most importantly, Manijeh shares how she learned to heal herself and her own childhood traumas and gained optimal inner peace and joy.

Manijeh’s ongoing personal practice, development, and Mindful Life Optimization Methodology continue to have a real positive impact on her students, clients, and the global community.

She is an AI Enthusiast and a contributor on the Planet Positive 2030 project for Stanford Advanced Technology for a Sustainable Planet, offering recommendations on how to address human transformation in order to address climate change globally.

Studying Life Optimization with Manijeh, I’ve become a better leader and manager by integrating qualities of empathy, loving kindness, self-compassion, and equanimity into the workplace. My insomnia, stress, anxieties, and self-doubts have greatly diminished. I feel far more patient, aware and comfortable with myself.

~ Meryl Lander, VP of Operations, Global Tech Company

Understanding my mental patterns and expectations has expanded my horizon, from hopelessness to hopefulness. Watching the real me emerge, I am encouraged to expand out of my comfort zone, blossoming into living life fully.

~ Bonnie Janofsky, Composer

I am forever in debt to Manijeh. Her teachings have empowered me to push the boundaries of my comfort zone. My life has been immensely enriched. The practice of cultivating wisdom and wholesome qualities has brought me peace and happiness. Manijeh’s wide range of topics have increased my awareness and love for all living beings and our environment.

~ Randy Shultz, Entrepreneur